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[scriver]

It's never to early for puns

[Naturegirl1999]

Let’s not bet swords ruin the pun

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1255101243422322688

[scriver]

Or as a news reporter on Swedish news said: "The anniversary for the end of the German occupation of Italy"

[A Thing]

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1255101243422322688

This thing right under that seems far more important.

[Naturegirl1999]

https://twitter.com/redfishstream/status/1255101243422322688

This thing right under that seems far more important.

One of the comments from your link

[Reelya]

Or as a news reporter on Swedish news said: "The anniversary for the end of the German occupation of Italy"

Well, technically a correct statement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Social_Republic

Germany seized control of the northern half of Italy, freed Mussolini and brought him to the German-occupied area to establish a satellite regime. The Italian Social Republic was proclaimed on 23 September 1943.
...
Around 25 April 1945–nineteen months after the RSI's founding–it all but collapsed. In Italy, this day is known as Liberation Day (festa della liberazione). On this day a general partisan uprising, alongside the efforts of Allied forces during their final offensive in Italy, managed to oust the Germans from Italy almost entirely. On 27 April, Italian partisans caught Mussolini, his mistress (Clara Petacci), several RSI ministers and several other Italian Fascists while they were attempting to flee. On 28 April, the partisans shot Mussolini and most of the other captives, including Petacci. The RSI Minister of Defense Rodolfo Graziani surrendered what was left of the Italian Social Republic on 1 May, one day after the German forces in Italy capitulated.

However which date the occupation itself ended would be up to interpretation. It's officially marked on Apr 25 in Italy.

But focusing on that part could say more about Sweden than anything else. Do the swedes have a stick-it-to-the-Germans attitude?

[scriver]

Swedes, yes (because they are the worst), but the super EU-friendly media, no, they worship Germans.

I just thought it funny what a complete reshaping of history the statement was -- might as well hail the taking of Berlin as the day Russia freed Germany from German occupation

[Loud Whispers]

20th century Italian history is the art of reshaping whose side you're on. Trust no one, not even yourself

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Italy is hilarious to me since it's a super-artificial country but has almost none of the internal conflicts about that like Spain does, even Lega Nord is just a meme party and ironically even more artificial than Italy itself.

[Loud Whispers]

Italy is hilarious to me since it's a super-artificial country but has almost none of the internal conflicts about that like Spain does, even Lega Nord is just a meme party and ironically even more artificial than Italy itself.

Besides Sicily and Sardinia most of the independence movements lack the meme geography to justify redrawing the maps

[scriver]

I also think that, as far as I'm aware, the individual Italianese cultures are also still closer to each other than they are to cultures outside of Spain.

Catalonians are culturally closer to Occitanians (non-frank southern Francelanders) than to Castilians. And the Basque are of course only close to themselves and the part of themselves that live in southwest France (the Gasque)

[martinuzz]

The Basque people and their language share a common ancestor with Hungarians (Magyar) and Fins (Suomi).

[ChairmanPoo]

I don't think vasconic and uralic languages are related. 
IIRC there was some news item about steppe DNA but you see something in the news
every few years regarding the origin of the Basque people so, eh, who knows.   I guess they had to come from somewhere at some point, so the steppe is as good a guess as any ...

[scriver]

I mean, Indo-Euro and Finno-Ugro languages share a common ancestor too. As to IE and Basque.

So it's not wrong.

I find the idea that Basque would be particularly close to the FU culture to be completely ludicrous, though. The proto-culture basically never left the northern areas of Eurasia. That one splinter of it would somehow end up in the Pyrineans without a massive migration through (the populated) Europe is a huge, huge stretch.

Basque is a pre-IE language, sure, and FU also migrate to Europe before the IE (they beat IE to Scandinavia by 3000-4000 years, iirc, I'm only using that as an example because it's what j know -- I don't know how long before that the FU hung out in the European north-east), so it's technically another pre-IE language group. But they're not related by any close means as far as I know.